Instructional Materials & How-Tos

Filming my own demo videos to present supporting skills are a key to freeing yourself up to ask the tougher questions. These videos either show themselves in the Google Classroom stream or are linked within a Hyperdoc. Students who need a refresher on a particular skill can choose to watch the the video, at their own pace, with the ability to be able to pause and rewind if needed. If students ask a question that I believe is covered by a demo video I kindly direct them to these first, "Did you watch the video? Check out the video first and if you still have questions, call me over".

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Using EdPuzzle to Create Interactive Videos

EdPuzzle allows you to create videos with quizzes imbedded into them. You can create your own screencast or other video as well as choose videos from YouTube to upload into EdPuzzle. Once uploaded, you can snip and add questions to particular parts of the video. What I saw, is that the use of these embedded questions created a more engaged viewer.

Mapping is a tool I use often to lay out the framework for a PBL unit. A Driving Question is an essential starting point as in our Food Justice unit, we decided that we wanted students to investigate the effects of a high-end grocery store such as New Seasons (a NW chain, very similar to Whole Foods). Our learning experiences were designed to give students "fuel" to answer this question. Our unit was broken down into different focus areas which we termed buckets. This process allowed us to begin to plan lessons around topics that related to the driving question. In summary, we wanted to give students enough information to work with and think about to be able to create a final product that involved them to critically think about the driving question and answer appropriately. In this units case, students created a zine either through a digital tool (Google Slides template) or a hand-built product.